Solaiemes, GSMA RCS DevChallenge Innovation Category Winner.

We are happy, very happy, 15 months ago we deciced to focus on RCS, being a very risky decision, and now, finally carriers seem to be deploying RCS-e as announced yesterday and today, just one day after, we won the GSMA RCS DevChallenge competition in the Innovation Category.

The Solaiemes team thanks all the people supporting us, providing good feedback, customers, partners, analysts, and our VC, Eurecan.
We hope this could be a new start, having from now on to have more opportunities to work together with carriers "to deliver the next big thing in communications to the masses" :-)

Some pics from this journey here, in our Facebook page.

Solaiemes, finalist in the GSMA RCS DevChallenge

Just to say Solaiemes has been shorlisted as Finalist in the innovation category of the GSMA RCS DevChallenge. The competition took place in the GSMA headquarter in London and the final will take place in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress next February. The jury is composed by selected representatives of leading carriers and top telco infrastructure suppliers.
We feel encouraged to work hard to attend the Barcelona final with new features added to our platforms and try to surprise there, not only to the jury, but MWC visitors.
Congrats to other finalist in all categories, and all the entrants, all together are working to push RCS, the technology that will enable the rich mobility for the masses.
Thx :-)

Solaiemes finalist at Premio Vivero

Today we were named Finalist at Premio Vivero (Award) organized by Fundetec.
We congratulate the winner IncarSoft and the other 2 finalists (elected from 60 projects participating), Balzac.tv and e-Quantium.
This mention granted as a free of cost booth for next SIMO'09 (IT Exhibition in Spain).
The jury members come from public administration (Red.es) and Fundetec sponsors as Telefonica, HP, Intel etc.
The speeches during the ceremony (by Fundetec President, a member of Incarsoft and a Madrid Council representative) were clear about the key role of entrepreneurship and innovation to left behing current crisis. All the first revenues of each start-ups are generating real time new qualified employement, and both, government entities and powerful companies should trust the start-ups innovations in products and services.
We welcome the awards and mentions sponsorized by public organizations and private companies, and hope they will be more active in the role of "early adopter" of entrepreneurs innovation :-)

Solaiemes is Red Herring Global 2008 Finalist.

Solaiemes has been selected finalist of Red Herring global 100. Red Herring Global is composed of companies from four continents and over 25 nations. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers regard the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation. Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.
The list, looking to match in the final round the 100 top tech start-up is not restricted to the internet/software industry, but nanotechnology, bio, renewable energies, microelectronics, etc.
We think this will help us to "evangelize" our value purpose for mobility. We will attentding the San Diego conference, next January 14-16th.

see you there.
If you are VC o potential partner attending San Diego conference and want to schedule a meeting, please, contact us.

Solaiemes, Finalist at "Emprendedor XXI 2008" in Madrid

Hi! Happy to say that our effort has been recognized in our headquarter location, Madrid. Solaiemes was declared finalist at "Emprendedor XXI 2008" (entrepreneurship award) in the Madrid state edition. "Premio Emprendedor XXI" (translating "XXI Entrepreneur Award") is sponsored by savings bank La Caixa and Spanish Ministery of Industry.

(jury act, in spanish)
http://www.madrimasd.org/emprendedores/uploads/Acta_Jurado_Emprendedor_XXI_2008.pdf

This kind of mentions encourage us to to more things, do things better, and grow and expand our brand and solutions.

Congratulations to the winner, a biotech company ( Projech Science to Technology ) and the other finalist with us, VaniOs (IT Security based on Biometrics). VaniOs is one of the companies invested by EURECAN VC (Caja Navarra), our common investor.

solaiemes team

Solaiemes, RedHerring 100 Europe 2008 Finalist !!!

Solaiemes has been selected by RedHerring as Finalist of the RedHerring 100 Europe 2008 Awards. We thank this kind of mentions just when our starp-up is 18 months old, a baby just walking but not able to speak very clear yet :-).

We are growing, our solutions infrastructure is ready, we have projects deploying our technologies, and first adopters customers interested, and this kind of initiatives help to highlight brand awareness. In few months our hard work has been compensated with VC investment, several important projects for us, the GSMA shorlisting us as Top Mobile Innovators at Mobile Asia Congress, being awarded by Bancaja at their Entrepreneurship Awards and finally being finalist at RedHerring 100.
Hope this kind of mentions will stimulate "first adopters" of new technologies in the same way they stimulate VC to invest :-)

Congratulations to all the other finalist start-up, specially the spanish ones, je je, and of course, all the very young start-ups at seed/A funding round :-), the hardest but also the most challenging times.

thanks again
the solaiemes team